Wwi Austrian Veteran's Wooden Cigarette Case Newly Listed Bengal in India

Bengal in India

In worn condition

prior to forming Ross Scouts in the Great War - a remarkable career retold in Neil Speeds entertaining biography Born to Fight North West Canada 1885

both the top and bottom of the brassard have approximately 12mm wide oak leaf separately sewn section produced in gold thread on red cotton

Wwi Austrian Veteran's Wooden Cigarette Case Newly Listed Bengal in IndiaWWI Veteran's Wooden Cigarette Case Polished wooden case with a reinforcing metal frame running along all four sides, lid lifts up to expose a finely crafted interior, lid with a bronze commemorative medal with left facing busts of Franz Joseph of Austria and Wilhelm II of Germany in the centre, surrounded by six silvered or enamelled insignia (regimental mark, two headed eagle with 1914, two headed eagle with ribbon banner inscribed "GOTT STRAFE